Chapter 465

On a snow-capped mountain.

The Barbarian God sent a snow-white skeleton flying with a single punch, and when that skeleton slammed into the other snow-white skeletons behind it, it blew straight through them, dealing boundless area-of-effect damage.

Behind him, a graceful figure hid, occasionally poking her head out to watch the battle.

Dong Yiyue and the Barbarian God appeared on the same map and successfully rendezvoused with each other.

"Xiao Yue, you go in, leave everything else to me!"

"This… Barbarian God Legion Commander, you…"

On the mountain peak, a teleportation light gate was hidden within the snow; without a careful look, it would have been impossible to spot at all.

But… the Barbarian God effortlessly brought Dong Yiyue straight to it.

No reason for it!

Someone had once entered this map to explore, but had failed this trial.

"Just go in, don't say anything else. Wait for me in place after you finish. I've got my own things to do too!"

"Okay!"

Dong Yiyue had not received any instructions from the Barbarian God before, but now a "fortuitous encounter" had appeared.

It really couldn't be wasted.

The next moment, Dong Yiyue flashed and stepped into the teleportation light gate, vanishing without a trace.

"The old gives way to the new — the duty of a Path-Protector is to guard your growth!"

"Luo kid, you better damn well come through!"

The Barbarian God struck out again, clearing the surrounding snow-white skeletons, then burst into wild laughter.

"Now… this daddy is going to see for himself what the legendary God-War Forbidden Zone really is!"

Where divine sense perception grew hazy.

That was the so-called Forbidden Ground.

Whether outsiders or the skeletons of the God-War Ground, all regarded it as forbidden.

"Becoming a god — the final step. I hope 'you' can give this daddy real pressure!"

The Barbarian God's laughter echoed through the entire space, snowflakes fluttered, and countless drifts of accumulated snow tumbled down amid the trembling…

………………

Such matters.

Were not happening to the Barbarian God alone — the peak half-gods of other nations, just like the Barbarian God, after a period of exploration, began searching for the legendary forbidden zone.

Attempting, beneath the forbidden zone's pressure, to take that most crucial step.

Becoming a god!!

Divinity is what every professional most craves.

Beneath a half-god, all are ants.

But…

Beneath a god, even ants are not.

A god's body conforms to the laws; within this world, they are nearly immortal and indestructible.

The road to becoming a god is one where nine out of ten die.

If they don't try, being stuck at peak half-god for so many years — what's the point!

If Blue Star could produce one more god, then life wouldn't be so grueling, enduring the invasion of the God-Demon Continent every moment of every day.

………………

"Ding, your super-divine weapon 【Pillar of Heaven】 has met the conditions for evolution. Evolution commencing!"

"Ding, your super-divine weapon 【Pillar of Heaven】 has completed evolution. Appended attributes increased, a new trait unlocked, a new super-divine weapon form unlocked."

Luo Chenyu wiped at sweat that wasn't actually there.

His face was full of smiles.

After such a long stretch of slaughter, he had finally met the kill conditions, allowing the super-divine weapon 【Pillar of Heaven】 to evolve once more.

Amid the slaughter.

He opened his equipment panel to check the changes to the super-divine 【Pillar of Heaven】.

All appended attributes increased by 5000!

The sixth trait appeared.

On attack, 30% chance to inflict the Bleed status on the target, dealing 30% of this hit's damage as divine-force damage per second for 3 seconds, stackable up to 10 times (in Sky-Splitting Blade form, the chance increases to 60% and Bleed damage rises to 50%)!

And the newly unlocked super-divine weapon form was the Sky-Splitting Blade.

This was no ordinary blade.

It was a long-handled weapon — a guan dao!

Its appearance resembled the Green Dragon Crescent Blade of the "Martial Saint" from his previous life, except entirely black, covered in countless black patterns, unfathomably profound.

"Hahaha… if you gave this daddy a warhorse too, what would be wrong with this daddy playing the Martial Saint for once!"

Luo Chenyu laughed.

This weapon was very interesting.

It felt very familiar to him.

However, the current situation wasn't suited to using the Sky-Splitting Blade form.

The Wolf-Fang Mace was the true area-of-effect killing weapon.

At this moment.

Only the final ten-plus minutes remained before completing the Fourth-Turn Class Change Advancement quest — as long as he steadily pushed forward, he could fulfill the "most basic" quest conditions.

"Hold steady, hope nothing unexpected happens!!"

Now, after eleven hours of slaughter, Luo Chenyu had pushed the battle line forward considerably.

He was already below the vortex.

In the distance.

A jet-black city appeared within his line of sight.

Right now, he only wanted to hold steady; he couldn't abandon the final dozen-odd minutes of stability just to satisfy his curiosity.

The fighting was still ongoing.

However...

A few minutes later, when Luo Chenyu stepped into a certain range, he discovered that the endless black skeletons seemed to have vanished, no longer drilling up from underground.

"???"

So angry I could die!!

What is an accident? This is an accident!

Whatever you don't want to encounter is bound to show up.

Now it's great — he had no choice but to go to that black city.

According to the quest prompt.

The limit for continuous combat was one minute.

If no combat occurred within one minute, everything done before would be wasted effort.

"Damn it!"

Luo Chenyu was speechless, activated 【Leap】 and flashed toward the city.

A distance of several thousand meters, reached in just 30 seconds.

【Leap】 and 【Savage Charge】 were both used up, just to arrive at the black city sooner.

However, Luo Chenyu's luck was still not bad.

Ahead was the city gate of the black city.

"Kill!!"

The Sky-Shaking Hammer appeared, and with one hammer-blow he smashed at the black city gate, cast from who-knew-what material.

Rebound damage -10.21 million!

Luo Chenyu: "???"

His HP plummeted in one chunk.

The half-divine level immunity to rebound had failed.

And...